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Shouldice Hospital

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Shouldice hospital is faced with the dilemma of increasing the number of hospital beds or
adding an extra working day in their schedule. Between the two options, increasing hospital beds
is more recommendable. Comparatively, adding one more day to the schedule will relatively
increase revenue as the hospital can serve more patients. On the other hand, increasing the bed
capacity by 50 percent provides the better solution as the hospital can admit more patients and
consequently increase the revenue significantly. Moreover, building an extra floor with extra
beds shows that the hospital is growing and people will associate that with good customer
service and thus the hospital stands to gain. Between the two options, although they both help
increase the hospital's revenue, increasing bed capacity has more advantage than adding one
more day to the hospital's schedule.
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Increasing the bed capacity has quite a number of advantages; operations will increase
from 150 to 225 per week. Considering the cost of one operation, the hospital stands to make an
extra 97500 dollars per week. Also, the hospital will incur a cost of 4.5 million dollars for the
expansion of the hospital and it will take approximately one year and seven months to pay back

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Surname 1 Student Tutor Course Date Shouldice Hospital Recommendation Shouldice hospital is faced with the dilemma of increasing the number of hospital beds or adding an extra working day in their schedule. Between the two options, increasing hospital beds is more recommendable. Comparatively, adding one more day to the schedule will relatively increase revenue as the hospital can serve more patients. On the other hand, increasing the bed capacity by 50 percent provides the better solution as the hospital can admit more patients and consequently increase the revenue significantly. Moreover, building an extra floor with extra beds shows that the hospital is growing and people will associate that with good customer service and thus the hospital stands to gain. Between the two options, although they both help increase the hospital's revenue, increasing bed capacity has more advantage than adding one more day to the hospital's schedule. Strengths Increasing the bed capacity has quite a number of advantages; operations will increase from 150 to 225 per week. Considering the cost of one operation, the hospital stands to make an extra 97500 dollars per week. Also, the hospital will incur ...
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